Christine Lagarde: Macroprudential policy in Europe: building resilience in a challenging environment
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When future historians look back on our times, they may well say we lived through an era of permacrisis. - A key message therein was the crucial importance of ensuring the continued resilience of our financial system.
- Resilience is key in helping the financial system to deliver on its ultimate goal of supporting the real economy.
- [4] In my remarks today, I will explore these two aspects of resilience, and how we can best ensure that they are met across the financial system.
- And I have no doubt that if all parties work together, we can master the challenges standing before us.
- By identifying and addressing vulnerabilities ahead of time, we can increase the resilience of the financial system, allowing it to withstand rather than amplify shocks.
- This applies first and foremost to banks, which remain at the heart of the European Unions financial system.
- They should be attentive to credit risk and remain alert to potential flaws in their internal models as the risk environment evolves.
- But building resilience cannot stop at banks: non-banks also play an increasing role in the financial system.
- In March this year, the ESRB published a blueprint for how to make the EU macroprudential framework fit for the next decade.
- That is why macroprudential policy must remain alert to the emergence of new challenges as and when they appear.
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